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Google Glass Can Now Track Your Stress Level
Researchers say they have developed a new method for using Google Glass to track a user's stress level and provide instant fitness feedback.
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China Develops Facial Recognition Payment System With Near-Perfect Accuracy
The Chinese Academy of Science plans to unveil a face-recognition payment application with near-perfect accuracy next year.
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Crowdsourcing Competitions Encourage Malicious Behavior, Study Finds
A new study has found that crowdsourcing competitions produce some of the worst competitive tendencies in people.
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Researchers Advance Artificial Intelligence For Player Goal Prediction in Gaming
New artificial intelligence software that improves the technology's ability to predict player actions in video games could be a key to enhancing player experiences...
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No Easy Parking Spot For First-Ever Comet Landing
Landing on a comet will be even harder than we thought.
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The Amazon.com of Stolen Credit Cards Makes It All So Easy
On Sept. 1, the website Rescator.cc alerted customers to a big new batch of product about to hit its digital shelves. "Load your accounts and prepare for an avalanche...
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It Certifications Pay Off, If Chosen Wisely
The proper certification can help you get a job, a raise, and sometimes a promotion.
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Our Cyborg Future
In June 2014, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Riley v. California, in which the justices unanimously ruled that police officers may not, without a...
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Manual Control
Mezzanine is a collaborative-conferencing system that enables multiple users to share and control digital content from any device using gesture controls.
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A Low-Energy Optical Circuit For a New Era of Technology
Researchers say a new building-block for photonic transistors that requires very little energy to operate is a major breakthrough in optical circuits.
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Code Generation: Kids Who Program Before They Can Read
Schools in England this month are embarking on one of the most ambitious efforts in the ongoing campaign to teach children to code.
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Networked Home Gadgets Offer Hackers New Opportunities
Connecting a new home appliance to a personal Wi-Fi network or broadband modem could increase the risk that data will be taken from other computers in the house...
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Social Networking Accord
A new computational model for reaching consensus in a broad spectrum of situations is based on analysis of communication patterns in social networks.
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Loneliness Narrows the Uncanny Valley
Talking to inanimate objects when you're feeling lonely may not be so strange after all.
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Airlines Take the Bump Out of Turbulence
Just a few years ago, airlines got their weather reports by telex.
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The Man Who Will Build Google's Elusive Quantum Computer
John Martinis is one of the world's foremost experts on quantum computing, a growing field of science that aims to process information at super high speeds using...
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NASA Instrument on Rosetta: First Science Results
A NASA instrument aboard the European Space Agency's Rosetta orbiter has successfully made its first delivery of science data from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko...
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Vicki Hanson Recognized For Outstanding Contributions to Accessibility and Computing
ACM has awarded the 2014 SIGACCESS Outstanding Contributions award to Rochester Institute of Technology professor Vicki Hanson.
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Researchers Send Electricity, Light Along Same Super-Thin Wire
Researchers have developed a basic model circuit consisting of a silver nanowire and a single-layer flake of molybdenum disulfide.
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